PERFORMANCE

The archetypal Swinging London movie, writer/director Donald Cammell and joint-helmer Nicolas Roeg’s psycho(delic)-drama brings together sadistic gangster Chas (James Fox) and fading, reclusive rock star Turner (Mick Jagger) in the latter’s drug-strewn, dolly-bird-draped Notting Hill mansion. Decadence, decay, hallucinations, reality versus fantasy, personality swapping… Performance more than lives up to its title, kicking off as a straight gangster movie then playing virtuoso games with us and its cast, teasing us to work out where illusion ends and lethal delusion starts. Philip Kemp